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Growth and characterization of zinc ferrite thin films for high frequency applications

Creator:: Hu, Jiqing
Abstract:: Ferrites have been used for various high frequency applications as bulk materials. These applications, however, are limited to large dimension devices. In this thesis, thin film ferrites were deposited from a low temperature solution-based deposition process that is suitable for micro-scale high frequency applications. The low temperature nature of this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Design techniques for low-voltage and low-power analog-to-digital converters

Creator:: Ahn, Gil Cho
Abstract:: With the ever-increasing demand for portable devices used in applications such as wireless communication, mobile computing, consumer electronics, etc., the scaling of the CMOS process to deep submicron dimensions becomes more important to achieve low-cost, low-power and high-performance digital systems. However, this downscaling also requires similar shrinking of the supply...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Advanced propulsion systems for linear motion with high performance requirements

Creator:: Zhou, Xiaolin
Abstract:: Traditionally linear actuator applications are addressed by the use of hydraulic systems. The high maintenance cost and poor reliability will always be the most critical problem in the real applications. Benefited from both the high mechanical advantage of the roll screw and the simple structure of the switched reluctance motor,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Low-power design techniques for low-voltage analog-to-digital converters

Creator:: Kim, Min Gyu
Abstract:: The demand for portable electronic systems and the continued down-scaling of device dimensions resulted in rapid improvement in the performance of integrated systems. Several low-voltage design techniques have been proposed to operate analog circuits with sub-1V supply. However, these techniques require higher power consumption to achieve large dynamic range while...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Multi-dimensional parametric estimation: two-dimensional sharpening by predictive bandwidth extrapolation and fast algorithms for three dimensional autoregressive estimation

Creator:: Liew, Ji Seok
Abstract:: Achieving sharpened (enhanced detail) features of a multi-dimensional data source using the linear prediction (LP) bandwidth extrapolation (BWE) technique in the transform domain is the main objective of this research. The evolution of sensor technology has provided acquisition scenarios in which the data format is inherently multi-dimensional, including hyperspectral imaging...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Low noise clocking for high speed serial links

Creator:: Brownlee, Merrick
Abstract:: As the functionality of digital chips continues to increase dramatically, chip- to-chip communication bandwidths must scale accordingly to avoid constraining the overall system performance. Therefore, high speed transceiver design has be- come an important research topic. In particular, the performance of the circuits that are responsible for timing accuracy are...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A dual-path 2-0 MASH ADC with dual digital error correction

Creator:: Zhang, Zhenyong
Abstract:: This dissertation presents a dual-path 2-0 MASH (Multi-stAge-noise -SHaping) ADC with two verified digital corrections of DAC mismatch error and quantization noise leakage. By using these two techniques, the requirements for the analog circuits are greatly relaxed. The dual-path structure generates two outputs, one only composed of conversion errors, the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Low-voltage data converters

Creator:: Meng, Qingdong
Abstract:: With the growing demand for portable/consumer electronics, such as digital audio/video (AV), the downscaling of device dimensions, which enables the integration of an increasing number of transistors in a single chip, is mandatory. This trend also continuously pushes the power supply voltage down to reduce the power consumption and improve...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Low-complexity high-speed VLSI design of low-density parity-check decoders

Creator:: Cui, Zhiqiang
Abstract:: Low-Density Parity-check (LDPC) codes have attracted considerable attention due to their capacity approaching performance over AWGN channel and highly parallelizable decoding schemes. They have been considered in a variety of industry standards for the next generation communication systems. In general, LDPC codes achieve outstanding performance with large codeword lengths (e.g.,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Kinematic and cyclostationary parameter estimation for co-channel emitter location applications

Creator:: Ohm, David R.
Abstract:: The problem of locating a signal source, or an emitter, has many civilian and military applications, such as communication regulations enforcement, military reconnaissance, and search-and-rescue operations. Many of the most widely used emitter location methods rely on the accurate and robust estimation of the differential time delay, or time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA),...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Efficient VLSI architectures for MIMO and cryptography systems

Creator:: Li, Qingwei
Abstract:: Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems have recently been considered as one of the most significant technology breakthroughs for modern wireless communications, due to the higher spectral efficiency and improved link reliability. The sphere decoding algorithm (SDA) has been widely used for maximum likelihood (ML) detection in MIMO systems. It is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

High efficiency delta-sigma modulation data converters

Creator:: Lee, Kyehyung
Abstract:: Enabled by continued device scaling in CMOS technology, more and more functions that were previously realized in separate chips are getting integrated on a single chip nowadays. Integration on silicon has opened the door to new portable wireless applications, and initiated a widespread use of these devices in our common...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Adaptive, wideband analog-to-digital conversion for convergent communication systems

Creator:: Batten, Robert D., 1973-
Abstract:: The exponential rate of advances in modern communication devices in the last several years have brought us higher levels of functionality and performance as well as reductions in physical size and power consumption. To continue this rate of advancement, next generation systems require wider bandwidth and higher resolution ADCs. Additionally,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Low-power dynamic CMOS circuits in high-performance memory arrays

Creator:: Patwary, Md. Ataur R.
Abstract:: Dynamic CMOS circuits are commonly used in high-performance memory arrays to implement wide-NOR logic functions for their read and search operations. This is because dynamic circuits have significantly higher speed and lower area compared to static circuits for performing similar operations. Register File (RF) arrays are located at the top...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A multi-bit hybrid DSM over full-scale range without feedback DEM

Creator:: Kwon, Sunwoo, 1974-
Abstract:: Evolution of the mobile communication standards and proliferation of hand-held devices mandate stringent Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) speciﬁcations. Among various ADCs, a ∆Σ ADC is best known as a power-eﬃcient ADC when more than 12b is required. However, a conventional discrete-time (DT) ∆Σ Modulator (∆ΣM) is inadequate for low-power wideband applications...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Novel power conditioning circuits for piezoelectric micro power generators

Creator:: Han, Jifeng
Abstract:: Advanced low power devices promote the development of micro power generators (MPGs) to replace the batteries to power them. Due to the trend in decreasing integrated circuit (IC) supply voltages, power supply designers are facing more and more serious challenges. The objective of this research is to design a power...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Ultra-low power receivers for wireless sensor networks

Creator:: Ayers, James S.
Abstract:: In wireless sensor network applications, low-power operation of the wireless receiver is critical. To address this need an ultra-low power Binary Frequency Shift Keying (BFSK) receiver using the super-regenerative architecture is developed. A prototype receiver is built and tested for operation in the 900 MHz ISM band. Lab measurements show...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Throughput optimization for single-hop wireless networks using network coding

Creator:: Tran, Tuan Tho
Abstract:: Recent advances in wireless technologies have helped the proliferation of wireless devices, ranging from hand-held devices such as cellular phones to more powerful mobile computing platforms as such laptops [1]. Along with that, the end users’ applications running on these devices, ranging from text message to multimedia applications such as...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Low power design techniques for analog-to-digital converters in submicron CMOS

Creator:: Musah, Tawfiq
Abstract:: Advances in process technologies have led to the development of low-power high speed digital signal processing blocks that occupy small areas. These advances are critical in the development of portable electronic devices with small feature size and long battery life. However, the design of analog and mixed-signal building blocks, especially...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Energy-efficient, short-range ultra-wideband radio transceivers

Creator:: Hu, Changhui
Abstract:: Short-range wireless communications continually attract interest from both industry and academia, and it is changing our life in every aspect in the last decade. The design of wireless transceivers is the bottleneck for variety applications, due to RF modeling inaccuracy, stringent FCC regulations over the transmitted power spectrum, interference, multi-path...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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